Comparison of Tripole and Vector Antenna Applications for Radio Astronomy

In this research, the performance of the tripole and vector antennas are ompared by mathematically working out the steering vectors and SINR and simulating them, to see whether the claim of Knapp et al. is valid. Also, to introduce both antennas,their models, S-parameter plots and radiation patterns are simulated in the HFSS software. The mathematical foundations showed that the assumptions of Knapp et all are incorrect. MATLAB simulations confirmed the calculations, as for uncorrelated and correlated signal and noise conditions, the SINR did nog change, meaning that the claim is invalid.